this professor is host of sci-fi science. you say it is a result of several things coming together. >> the hurricane from hell was created by a collision of three large air masses creating e ini animal we have never seen before. we have a hurricane off the coast of florida. then you have the jet stream from the arctic going all the way down to florida, colliding with this hurricane. and then you have another storm coming in from the west. the merger of three large air masses created a new animal, the likes of which we have never seen before. >> it is fascinating because when you look at, oh, it is a cat 1 hurricane, on paper that doesn't look so bad. >> you can't use the ordinary nomenclature of hurricanes. hurricanes are smaller and faster. this was humongous, 800 miles across, and velocities are much lower. but the amount of energy stored in it was huge because of the warm water from the caribbean, fed by the energy from the jet stream. and this is a very unusual pattern that caught scientists off guard. >> was there any wa